Express' render/redirect does not work if the call isn't coming from a submit method in a form

Question

Task

Perform a POST request from a JS method, so that variable values can be sent as parameters.

Environment

• NodeJS
• Express
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Answer 1

I'm not a jQuery expert, but I think the first attempt doesn't work because $.post makes an AJAX request, the same way as you would in a single-page app to interact with an API in the background.

Your second example submits a form, which is an in-browser action that performs a navigation action (as specified by the method attribute of the form). In this case, the event listener you add in jQuery is redundant, and should be removed - it's making another background POST request, before the form submits the content of its fields in its request.

As for your second question, the way to submit additional variables with a form submission (presuming that you actually want to do a navigating form submission and not an XHR background request against an API) is to use elements.

So, to summarize, to do what you're describing in your question, your example HTML should look like this (minus the comments):

 

  
     
  
  
    

      
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